Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:17:16PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Theo,
>
> > Unfortunately the commit in curl upstream that introduced it has no
> > indication of who originated it. so we're still in the dark. I
> > haven't dug through the curl mailing list history though.
>
> I had a bit of a go at that earlier, both manually skimming two of the
> list archives backwards from the time of the commit, and getting Google
> to search that site for "RISC OS" or "USE_ENVIRONMENT", etc. Didn't
> turn anything up. Others may do better. :-)

I had a bit more of a dig and came up with:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2002-03/0145.html

which says the relevant port was from Michael Curtis.
That eventually led me to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040205143254/http://homepages.ihug.co.nz:80/~jamjars/michael/software.html
which has a download... that doesn't have a frontend.
It also doesn't seem to have the --environment option available.

So my guess is that this isn't actually used for anything, and is safe to
remove.

The other patches from Michael Curtis seem to be related to
building natively on RISC OS (ie without autoconf) - while that might be
useful for some, I have no idea if the GCC from today will build it with the
same flags as the ones committed 15 years ago. I think in that case the
only sustainable route is cross-compilation with autoconf, unless someone
wants to maintain curl's upstream RISC OS-native config.h

Theo

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